We posed these questions to well connected H&S people in the UK, Australia, the USA and Canada.
• What are the key H&S challenges facing your country?
• H&S can go in cycles. What is currently fashionable, and why?
• What are the key lessons in recent years that the world can learn from?
• Looking ahead over the next 5 years, what broad changes in approach do you anticipate (or would like to see)?
(We also take a look at the forthcoming ISO 45001 standard.)

“Whenever I use a machine guarding incident reported in Safeguard as a training case study, someone invariably shouts out “The operator was obviously an idiot!” and everyone laughs. This “blame the worker” mentality is common. How best to counter it?